Browse our complete collection of conversations about the social and moral value of economic life.
We've reached the end of our second season. This is the time when we take a pause and look back. In today's episode, it means looking back to our pilot episode about shareholder activism and our Season 1 bonus episode…
We've reached the last regular episode of Season 2. Hold on to your passport. We're still travelling. We start in New York and then head to India with Megha Desai. Megha is the former ad agency protégé, who after a…
Despite being in the midst of a global pandemic, we're going to take a trip around the world. We're talking about the Economy of Francesco (EoF) with Paulo Santori, an economic historian in Rome and with Myrian Castello, a "human-right-to-dream"…
This week we stay in the co-op space a little longer and get a two-for-one. As an homage to Women's History Month, we talk with one of the most celebrated marketer of co-ops-- and one of less than a handful…
This week, we're going to switch things up a bit. We are going to talk about the idea of inclusion, but from a slightly different perspective. We are going to learn all about economic structure called a co-op. Sure you…
This week, we talk with Logan Scott, Manager for Diversity and Inclusion at The Walt Disney Company. Logan's work during Black History Month on the New York Times' 1619 Project inspired us. Logan talks about superheroes, diversity, equity, inclusion, and…
This week, we take storytelling to a whole new level. We learn that each of us is a "superhero" at something. We talk to the man whose Instagram feed has selfies with the Hollywood Superhero A-LIST. In some ways, we…
The winds of change are blowing in corporate governance. Where will they take us? Time will tell. This week we have a shareholder perspective from a man whose name is well-known in the investor relations offices of many of the…
In 2020, JP Morgan CEO, Jamie Dimon's tenure at the helm of the Business Roundtable expired. But what about this whole new way of doing business? In 2021, shareholder activists put the stakeholder governance paradigm to the test, and JP…
In this episode, we're not talking about bulls or bears. We're talking about the big, fat elephant in the room. The finance industry is ethically-conflicted. We talk with JC de Swaan, hedge fund investor and Princeton finance ethicist, about Robinhood,…
In this episode, we explore the idea that everyone who has retirement assets should have the ability to know where their money is invested and how it has an impact in the world. With knowledge comes power-- the power to…
Former Congressman Andy Levin
In this episode, we're going to a difficult place. How do we as a society express-- or dare we say-- determine the value of a human life? The question itself forces us to make an important distinction between economic value…
We start our second season with one of the most notorious narco money men in US history, Jorge Valdes. We hear the story of how a 10-year old Cuban refugee becomes the youngest person to work at the Federal Reserve…
Welcome to those who have just found us... and welcome back to our loyal WDIP listeners. This three minute trailer takes a tour through some of what we learned in Season 1 on our quest to explore the moral and…
